I tried to post a discussion topic.Somehow, mine got a lot more hateful responses than the similar threads I saw today.My thread is also one of the few that wasn’t quickly locked.ĭuring its Steam review and discussion, XoeAllred said a highly effective way to end up in an uninvited position in a resemblance to the homophobic and transphobic communities. They did start kicking people for it after the problem was discussed.Įven though the devs made a statement about the situation and also removed global chat from the game, the conversation about the issue is still happening on the Steam page and the developers are deleting all the related topics. It caused questioning about whether speaking about being trans or gay was family friendly, considering that the moderation team didn’t ban or punish anybody from speaking about being straight or being proud to be their assigned gender. The same Discord user said that tabletop Simulator is about playing tabletop games, isn’t a place to discuss sexuality, fetishes, politics. This means people who talk about being straight or cisgender should also be kicked, as is it in their own criticism. Many people criticized the game for telling the same thing: speaking about being gay or transfender was an excuse to kick a person from global chat. Those who are a lot of people think there is no way that the moderators prevented people from saying that they were straight or that they were talking about being cisgender. Some people think that a global conversation should open for discussion about sexuality or gender, while others prefer not to see that conversation enter a video game about tabletop game. In her conversation with a moderator in the Tabletop Simulator Discord, a moderator in the name of CHRY said that conversation about sexuality doesn’t play any role in global discussion, so many are turning to their argument when the game is negatively reviewed.
After XoeAllred was banned for the first time, she tried to speak with the moderators in order to find out why and challenge the rules that said when using Global Chat, there is the expectation that discussion will be family friendly and centered around Tabletop Simulator, tabletop games, and chat with other players. In the lobby, it was seen that global chat was shown before the login. They then said they were removing global chat from the game to reassess the moderation process. They reiterated that the actions taken by the game in dealing with this user didn’t reflect the beliefs and feelings of the game. The developers released a new statement last night stating they hadn’t handled the situation properly and were misinformed about the sequence of events and how the current circumstances affected them. We take a stand to block users from harassing members of the LGBTQ+ community. 8, by Tabletop Simulator, saying that we don’t censor, suppress or ban users who express their identity, race or orientation. This seems contradictory to a statement made on Jan. In the screengrabs, XoeAllred says oh Im not banned for being gay now and is almost immediately kicked out of the talk. The screengrabs and the experiences of XoeAllred were played on Twitter, and her tweets began to grow with traction in a few days, and then a user was taking the plunge and swarming on Steam.
Tabletop Simulator gave players the chance to play games they know, love and bond with their friends while they were quarantined. This forced people to go to the table and search for a game for friends and family to bring them together. The game was very popular after the pandemic forced people to stay home. Tabletop Simulator was released in 2015 and served as both a tool for game makers as well as for those who wanted to play the game without a hand and play. Berserk Games, the developer behind the long-standing game Tabletop Simulator, has been under fire recently after a trans user who goes by XoeAllred tweeted a message expressing his experience to the moderation team after being banned from the game for expressing homosexuality and transphobia.
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